In Atlanta today, interim Environmental Protection Agency chief Bob Perciasepe discussed looming sequestration cuts, scheduled to go into effect Friday barring congressional action.
Perciasepe warned cuts to the EPA’s eight state Southeast region would be in the tens of millions of dollars. He said there’d be fewer factory and power plant inspections and a slower emissions certification process for vehicles.
“We’re already at a bare bones situation in terms of the inspections,” said Perciasepe. “State budgets have already been reduced over the last several years so the whole system of environmental protection in the United States is pretty much on an edge.”
This year alone, the impact of the cuts in Georgia include a $3.5 million cut for air and water quality inspection and another $1 million for fish and wildlife protection.
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